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‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…role in Satan’s evil End Times gambit. As Robert C. Fuller observed in his classic Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession, the candidates for the starring roles vary over time in fundamentalist eschatological analysis. Some see Islam as the religion of the false prophet, the theological sidekick to the Antichrist. After 9/11 there was an increase in the demonization of Muslims in some Christian evangelical circles, especially…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…and organizations have to adapt and change or run the risk of going out of business. Religious organizations are no different. If a particular organizational form or experience isn’t adapted over time so that it makes sense in the current social and cultural context, that group will ultimately fail. But I don’t think that necessarily means throwing everything out—adaptation is adjustment to challenges and demands from members (and potential member…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…ountains of Culture in the US, which include religion, family, government, business, education, media, and arts & entertainment. Even among seemingly ordinary conservative Christians who’ve never heard the term “NAR” and who may disdain certain Pentecostal teachings and practices like speaking in tongues and faith healing, there appears a willingness to embrace the NAR’s wilder theological claims about conquering culture and Satanic influences on…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…the intention of the practitioner. You go to Google and more than half the class is practicing mindfulness in order to become more successful. Is that a problem? I would say it’s not. I think the practice is so powerful that regardless of original intention, if you do the practice right you get the same outcome, the good outcome. In that corporate setting, the objective of mindfulness programs aligns with the students’ intentions—in other words, g…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ent, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organised crime… These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill equivalent to the value of non-paid tax big business has ‘avoided’ out of the economy this year alone. They may not articulate their grievances like the politicians that condemn them but…

Did Pope Francis Just End the Religion and Science Conflict?

By Donovan Schaefer

…h the preponderance of scientists and against conservative politicians and business leaders in affirming that anthropogenic climate change is both real and urgent. He thus adds moral weight to the scientific consensus. Francis then takes it a step further by calling on Catholics to see science as a necessary tool for methodically tracking the health of the Earth and its inhabitants—a global stethoscope—and to see their own role in taking moral res…

Where Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?

By Arri Eisen

…s realistic a way as possible. Berns et al, after identifying through more classical psychological surveying means what participants’ sacred values were, offered participants increasing amounts of real money to go against those values—or rather to sign a document that said they would go against it. The scientists couldn’t ethically challenge the actual sacred value, but they could challenge the participants’ integrity in relation to that value. Th…

Teaching World Religion in the Dumpster Fire

By Kate Blanchard

…urse, so I will not apologize for trying to complicate the views of future business people, health care professionals and public school teachers.) I struggled, as I suppose most teachers did on that day, to figure out what I would say to my students—some of whom would be triumphant, others grieving, all of them sleep-deprived. In truth, I did not trust myself to broach the topic of the election in front of 30 undergraduates, because I wasn’t certa…

Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…oral and intellectual capital on these days. Newman, Old Tactics This is a classic example of making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill, a tactic well-known to Progressive Catholics. “Founded in 1993, The Cardinal Newman Society is dedicated to renewing and strengthening Catholic identity at America’s 224 Catholic colleges and universities.” Translation: this small group, founded by Patrick J. Reilly, monitors speakers, professors, students…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…te media chatter on about the consequences of a national default on middle-class people’s pensions. They chatter on about “will he or won’t he” Paul Ryan. Almost nobody with a soapbox, and (sadly) none of our religious leaders, talks about broader GOP campaign to strangle what remains of the welfare state. The corporate media let well-fed white guys like Freedom Caucus leader Jim Jordan talk about the need not to saddle his children and grandchild…